Washingtonpost.com

I knew the minute that I clicked on to washingtonpost.com that it would be similar to the other news related sites we had to visit in the past, like cnn.com or msnbc.com.

Like the two sites, this one too was very neat, clean, and well organized. Every different section, like Opinion, Politics, News, Local, Sports, Arts and Living, City Guide, Jobs, Cars, Real Estate, Rentals, and Classifieds, were laid out at the top of the page, making it easy access to visitors of the site.

While poking around on the site, I noticed that it featured a lot of stories that you may not see or read in a regular newspaper. For example, there was an article about teenagers who are stepping up (literally, teens marched up to the Washington Monument) and began to demand a call for action in Darfur. This wasn't the only interesting story I found, I also found stories that ranged from Gov. Corzine undergoing surgery to stories that focus on the climate and environment.

With such an array of articles I think the target audience could be anyone really. I think this could be viewed by not only people like me who are using it as a tool for a homework assignment, but could be used by anyone, who let's say, didn't get the chance to pick up the paper this morning because it seems that washingtonpost.com featured stories that would be found in the newspaper and stories that you wouldn't necessarily find in it.

Another reason why they may have a diverse audience is because the site does not only feature news. At the very bottom of the site, there are places for people to do crosswords or sudoku, get their horoscope or even check out tv listings. Of course, I also found out that you have to be a registered users to take advantage of some (like the corsswords) of these things.

This site had a lot of different options for a lot of different people. I liked this site in comparison to other news related sites we had to visit in the past. But that doesn't mean that I'll be checking it out every day!